Have you seen these doodle games from Vi Harte? Brilliant games to play with math. Or perhaps games to play that demonstrate how math works. This one is my favourite, but you might also enjoy Stars, Infinity Elephants or Binary Trees, among others.
[18] NO, THERE IS NO PRECEDENT for what we are struggling to create. We have to make it up ourselves.
A great set of theses which ends with this one. And therefore the capacities to create what is unprecedented are also unprecedented. Best practices for what will be needed in the future are not available at any scale in the precedent. The call in the world now is to move to discover new ways of being at every scale. Some of this new ways will draw on old ways, some of it will draw on contemporary ways and some of it will draw on ways we haven’t yet discovered. But it will depend on “ways.”
Ways are roads. We travel some of these lineages now and we start new ones all the time. While I was in Los Angeles, I was struck by the evolution of the road system. Some of it is based on very old paths, such as Wilshire Boulevard, which began life as a path cleared through a barley field and gave rise to a fundamental archetype of automobile based commercial space, the Miracle Mile. Henry Wilshire had no idea that his cut through a field would create such a pattern. His pathway far pre-dated the technology that would find its highest expression there.
In creating the unprecedented ways of our future, we need to be attentive to what we are doing but not assume that any great stroke will create the roadway of the future. If a path through a field is needed, cut the path. And see what happens. Many paths die away, but the odd one or two becomes a powerful way when the time is right.
- At Disneyland.
Yes. #
- Roof top lunch in Santa Monica. #
- Caitlin: a good life skill is to take every opportunity to look at babies. #
- http://yfrog.com/gyacennj new moon, sunset in the desert at an empty and cheap resort in Palm Springs CA. Ty priceline! #
- Last night the katabatic wind coated the car in a fine layer of dust. Today the desert is bright and clear. #
At the end of a week in california with the family, capped off by some short hikes and a rock balancing session in Joshua Tree National Park. Beautiful, but disturbing. This photo is of a rock balanced at 4800 feet overlooking the Coachella Valley which is filled with smog that blows in from the Los Angeles basin. A little bit of balance restored.
- Such a clean, clearing, steady wind this morning drying everything and freshening the tops of the firs. Not a wren to be seen! #
- Gomes manages to play goal like a bumblebee manages to fly: it violates the laws of physics but it seems to work. #coys #
- Bowen Islanders…make a NewYears resolution to learn some of the local Skw language: http://bit.ly/hGCVAJ @squamishlang #
- After screen of storms with wind and rain it would be fair to say that the morning appears "relaxed." #
- Winter morning http://post.ly/1OrT9 #
- Another calm carnelian colored dawn http://yfrog.com/h0f63dnj #